86 results about "Language disorder" patented technology

Methods of treating language, behavioral and social disorders are described, including methods of treating language disorders associated with electrographic abnormalities in the primary or associative language cortex of persons with autism spectrum disorders, pervasive developmental delay or acquired epileptic aphasia. A language, behavioral and social disorder may be treated by detecting epileptiform activity or an electrographic seizure for a subject's brain and applying neurostimulation to a language cortical region of the subject's brain (e.g., a primary or associative language cortical region). Detection of epileptiform activity or an electrographic seizure and stimulation of language cortex may be performed by a sensing and / or stimulation electrode that is inserted into a subject's brain and connected to one or more neurostimulation devices for monitoring and / or stimulating the language cortex.

Methods, devices, and computer program products display visual choral speech to a patient who stutters or has a speech impediment or impairment as a visual stimulus for the patient to enhance the fluency of the patient. The visual choral speech is incongruous with the speech produced by the stutterer and is provided by a visual display of the articulatory movements of a person other than the patient (or a simulated representation thereof) of the person's lips and mouth as the person speaks. The visual speech gestures can be displayed to the patient in advance of a speaking event or speech production by the stutterer and / or concurrently with a speaking event (either intermittently or continuous during the speaking event). The visual choral speech gestures can be based on a string of coherent words to provide the visual speech gestures signal such that it is relayed to the user without the attendant auditory component allowing the user to speak at a substantially normal pace with enhanced fluency.

The compact and portable interactive system allows person-to-person communication in a typed language format between individuals experiencing language barriers such as the hearing impaired and the language impaired. The communication system includes a custom configuration having a display screen and a keyboard, a data translation module for translating the original data from a first language type to a second language type. The display screen shows a split configuration with multiple dialogue boxes to facilitate simultaneous display of each user's input. The system supports multilingual text-based conversations as well as conversion from audio-to-text and text-to-audio conversations. Translation from one communication format to a second communication format is performed as messages are transmitted between users.

The invention relates to a sign language interpreting, displaying and sound producing system based on electromyographic signals and motion sensors. The sign language interpreting, displaying and sound producing system comprises a gesture recognition subsystem and a semantic displaying and sound producing subsystem. The gesture recognition subsystem comprises the multi-axial motion sensors and a multi-channel muscle current acquisition and analysis module, the gesture recognition subsystem is put on the left arm and the right arm of a user, and the original surface electromyogram signals of the user and motion information of the arms of the user are obtained; gestures are differentiated by processing the electromyogram signals and data of the motion sensors. The displaying and sound producing subsystem comprises a semantic analyzer, a voice control module, a loudspeaker, a displaying module, a storage module, a communication module and the like. According to the sign language interpreting, displaying and sound producing system, by the adoption of the mode recognition technology based on the electromyographic signals of the double arms and the data of the motion sensors, the gesture recognition accuracy rate is increased; through the combination of the semantic displaying and sound producing subsystem, interpreting from commonly-used sign language to voice or text is achieved, and the efficiency of direct communication between people with language disorders and normal people is improved.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for enhancing the holistic and temporal speech perception processes of a learning-impaired subject. A subject listens to a sound stimulus which induces the perception of verbal transformations. The subject records the verbal transformations which are then used to create further sound stimuli in the form of semantic-like phrases and an imaginary story. Exposure to the sound stimuli enhances holistic speech perception of the subject with cross-modal benefits to speech production, reading and writing. The present invention has application to a wide range of impairments including, Specific Language Impairment, language learning disabilities, dyslexia, autism, dementia and Alzheimer's.

Methods, devices and systems treat non-stuttering speech and / or language related disorders by administering a delayed auditory feedback signal having a delay of under about 200 ms via a portable device. The DAF treatment may be delivered on a chronic basis. For certain disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, the delay is set to be under about 100 ms, and may be set to be even shorter such as about 50 ms or less. Certain methods treat cluttering (an abnormally fast speech rate) by exposing the individual to a DAF signal having a sufficient delay that automatically causes the individual to slow his or her speech rate.

Methods, devices and systems treat non-stuttering speech and / or language related disorders by administering a delayed auditory feedback signal having a delay of under about 200 ms via a portable device. The DAF treatment may be delivered on a chronic basis. For certain disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, the delay is set to be under about 100 ms, and may be set to be even shorter such as about 50 ms or less. Certain methods treat cluttering (an abnormally fast speech rate) by exposing the individual to a DAF signal having a sufficient delay that automatically causes the individual to slow his or her speech rate.

The invention relates to a semantic-computing-based interaction system and a semantic-computing-based interaction method for person with hearing or language disorder. The system is characterized by comprising two parts, namely portable terminals and a cloud-computing-based cloud server, and comprises at least two types of portable terminals, namely a first-type portable terminal and a second-type portable terminal or a portable terminal combining the two types of terminals. The portable terminals are used for performing related computing, data also can be uploaded to the cloud server for accurate computing, then a result is returned to the portable terminals, and different users can customize different semantic dictionaries. The system and the method have the advantages that words spoken by normal person are converted into the animation display of hand signs, so that the normal person can transmit information to the person with the hearing or language disorder without barriers; and the hand signs of the person with the hearing or language disorder can be converted into voices for play or into texts for display, so that interaction between the normal person and the person with the hearing or language disorder is further facilitated.

The invention relates to the technical field of text classification in natural language processing, in particular to a multilingual text classification method fusing topic information and BiLSTM-CNN,which comprises the following specific implementation processes of firstly, collecting multilingual parallel corpora of Chinese and English to construct a parallel corpus; preprocessing each languagetext in the corpus; utilizing a word embedding technology to train word vectors of all languages; extracting text topic vectors of all languages by utilizing a topic model; and establishing a neural network model suitable for multilingual, fusing theme information, and carrying out multilingual text representation. The text classification method solves the language obstacles, has very high adaptability, can meet the requirement of multi-language text classification, and is high in practicability.

A device and method for improving speech. One embodiment comprises an apparatus and method for treating stuttering by providing biofeedback to monitor aspects of the user's voice and also providing altered audio feedback (AAF) to induce fluent speech. Biofeedback features include monitoring phonated intervals. AAF features include delayed auditory feedback (DAF), frequency-altered auditory feedback (FAF), and switching the user's voice between his or her left and right ears multiple times per second. The biofeedback controls AAF parameters including volume, which changes smoothly. Bluetooth is also included to connect to wireless microphones and earphones. Another embodiment comprises an apparatus and method for use by persons without speech disabilities for the purpose of improving public speaking by providing their voice back to their ears altered to appear to be in a different emotional state, thus inducing this preferred emotional state in the person speaking.

The invention provides a novel intelligent sign language translation and man-machine interaction system which comprises a gesture identifying system and a semantic vocalizing system. The gesture identifying system is connected with a user with language disorder to transmit an original electromyographic signal; the gesture identifying system is connected with the semantic vocalizing system to transmit basic semantic information; and the semantic vocalizing system transmits voice which is consistent with the semantics of sign language. The gesture identifying system comprises an electromyographic signal acquisition device, a wireless transceiver, a filter, a characteristic extraction unit and a classifier. The semantic vocalizing system comprises a semantic analyzer, a voice controller and a portable speaker. According to the novel intelligent sign language translation and man-machine interaction system and the use method thereof, a mode identifying technology based on the electromyographic signal is adopted, the gesture identification precision is improved and the efficiency in exchange between the user with language disorder and an healthy person is improved by combining a voice system. After being simply adjusted, the system and the method can be used by users with language disorder with different body shapes. The electromyographic signal acquisition device and the semantic vocalizing system are respectively worn through a wrist band and a waist band, so that the normal life of the user with language disorder is not affected.

The invention relates to an intelligent alarming method and system and an intelligent mobile terminal. The intelligent alarming method comprises the following steps that S11, fingerprint information input by a user is received; S12, whether the input fingerprint information is consistent with pre-stored fingerprint information or not is judged; S13, when the input fingerprint information is consistent with the pre-stored fingerprint information, current state information and / or surrounding environment information and / or user health information is obtained, and alarm information is generated; S14, the alarm information is sent. By adopting the technical scheme, a user can also call the police under the following situations when the user does not know the current position; the user is illiterate or has something wrong with the eyes; the user is kidnapped and cannot explain in voice conveniently, the user is a person with language disorder or the user inconveniently opens function menus of a mobile phone layer by layer. Therefore, operation is simple, convenient and quick.

The invention discloses a cross-language information retrieval method based on a conceptual graph. The concept map-based cross-language information retrieval method is a cross-language similarity evaluation framework CG-CLIR method, which comprises the following steps: S1, based on the concept edge representation of Skip-Gram; S2, high-order semantic embedding and similarity calculation of the fusion side information; the step S1 includes text preprocessing, concept graph edge semantic embedding. The step S2 includes LSTM based graph level semantic embedding, graph embedding based similarity calculation. According to the method, in text cross-language information retrieval, language obstacles are crossed, and the semantic retrieval effect is achieved under the condition that translation isnot conducted.

The present invention is an Advanced Natural Language Translation System (ANLTS). It discloses a method to address the most common variation in the world, which is communication gap between people of different ethnicity. Typically, communication is said to be successful between two people if someone speaks and opponent party can understand. In other words the intended recipient's brain language area can comprehend the speech. The problem of not understanding the speech of others is the cause of language barriers. So, this invention discloses a method to solve the language barrier problem where it is capable of interpreting meaning of speech in one language to a language native to another—basically to a language the recipient brain can comprehend.Imagine a world where we can communicate with our native language to everyone without the need of human translators, interpreters, hand-held device and language translation books. In order to facilitate language translation, this present invention recognizes the speech, collects the language comprehensive information from every recipient's brain language area within the audible range and sends it to voice processing center for analyzing. Then, it translates the collected speech to intended recipient(s) native language by using more than 6,700 language dictionaries database. The translated language is retransmitted in audible frequency to the language area of each recipient(s) brain.

Treatment apparatus and method for the enhancement of neurophysiological processes of a patient's visual system utilizes a computer generated display that provides a patient simultaneously with passive visual stimulation images and visual cognitive exercises. The stimulation images include moving elements having edges or points of contrast. The exercises include visual and phonological elements. The invention is used to treat reading, writing and speech disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well as having broader applications for example in sports sciences.

A communication method and system is used to implement the conversion between voice and letter. The invention transforms a voice information, which is sent by the other party to a letter information and displays the letter information during communication; the invention also transforms the letter information, which is input by a user to the voice information and transmits the voice information. For deaf and dumb people with language disorders, the invention provides a more convenient communication channel to contact with the outside, which is easy to use.

System and process for teaching speech utilizing visual phonemes as physical, representations or surrogates of spoken sounds. Such demonstration teaching tools or implements may be tangible or viewed on a computer, and are provided. These are distinguished by recognizable shapes and colors. They are modeled upon a number of sources including: characters of the International Phonetic Alphabet; shapes of a speaker's mouth configurations; certain English alphabet letters associated with spoken sounds. Visual phonemes representing spoken vowel sounds have warm colors; those representing consonants, cool colors. Combinations of vowel sounds, diphthongs, are represented by visual phonemes displaying blends of warm colors representing each spoken vowel sound in the diphthong combination. The implements may be rigid or flexible, or displayed in electronic form. They may be fabricated to facilitate mounting on a display surface. The disclosed system and process may be advantageously presented in the form of a portable kit.

A machine translation method and system comprises the steps of (a) formalizing a non-formal source language in an interactive or automatic way and (b) transforming the formal source language into a formal or non-formal target language in an automatic way. It completely eliminates the language barrier between person and person and the language barrier between person and computer: A user translates his / her non-formal native language entirely correctly and without any lexical ambiguity into any non-formal foreign language which he / she knows nothing about; a user and a computer exchange information in his / her non-formal native language entirely correctly and without any lexical ambiguity. It can be used in network terminal equipment, Internet knowledge bases, knowledge reasoning search engines, expert systems and automatic programming. That formalization of a source language is the common foundation for transformation into various target languages makes it especially suitable for multilingual machine translation.

System and process for teaching speech utilizing visual phonemes as physical, representations or surrogates of spoken sounds. Such demonstration teaching tools or implements may be tangible or viewed on a computer, and are provided. These are distinguished by recognizable shapes and colors. They are modeled upon a number of sources including: characters of the International Phonetic Alphabet; shapes of a speaker's mouth configurations; certain English alphabet letters associated with spoken sounds. Visual phonemes representing spoken vowel sounds have warm colors; those representing consonants, cool colors. Combinations of vowel sounds, diphthongs, are represented by visual phonemes displaying blends of warm colors representing each spoken vowel sound in the diphthong combination. The implements may be rigid or flexible, or displayed in electronic form. They may be fabricated to facilitate mounting on a display surface. The disclosed system and process may be advantageously presented in the form of a portable kit.

Methods of treating language, behavioral and social disorders are described, including methods of treating language disorders associated with electrographic abnormalities in the primary or associative language cortex of persons with autism spectrum disorders, pervasive developmental delay or acquired epileptic aphasia. A language, behavioral and social disorder may be treated by detecting epileptiform activity or an electrographic seizure for a subject's brain and applying neurostimulation to a language cortical region of the subject's brain (e.g., a primary or associative language cortical region). Detection of epileptiform activity or an electrographic seizure and stimulation of language cortex may be performed by a sensing and / or stimulation electrode that is inserted into a subject's brain and connected to one or more neurostimulation devices for monitoring and / or stimulating the language cortex.

The invention discloses an information processing method and device and a motor vehicle. According to one specific embodiment, the method comprises the steps that by responding to receiving of a routeplanning instruction of a user, a planned route from a departure place to a destination place is generated; an image to be identified is obtained; the image to be identified is parsed to determine target identification information in the image to be identified; effective information meeting at least one preset condition is screened out from the target identification information, wherein the preset conditions include matching of the target identification information and the planned route; language transformation is conducted on the effective information to generate first transformation information. In this way, language barriers of drivers during road recognition in the driving process are eliminated, and the potential driving safety hazards caused by language problems are reduced.

The invention discloses a sign language interpreting method and a sign language interpreting system based on gesture tracing. A gesture tracing sensor is used for acquiring gesture moving information and transmitting the acquired gesture moving information to a digital signal processor on a terminal to be analyzed, the analyzed gesture moving information is compared with gesture moving information stored in a sign language information database stored on the terminal, sign language information corresponding to the gesture moving information is obtained through comparison, and accordingly the sign language information sent through gesture moving by a user can be accurately acquired. The problem that it is hard for ordinary people to understand the sign languages is solved, communication between people with language barriers and ordinary people is enhanced, and convenience is provided for the daily life of people.

The invention discloses an auditory attention PPI adjustment system. The auditory attention PPI adjustment system includes an interaction platform, a signal conversion unit, a signal playing unit and a data acquisition and analysis unit; the interaction platform is used for processing selected acoustic information into acoustic digital signals containing special information and sending the acoustic digital signals to the signal conversion unit; the signal conversion unit is used for converting the received acoustic digital signals into analog signals and sending the analog signals to the signal playing unit; the signal playing unit is used for playing the received acoustic analog signals; the data acquisition and analysis unit is used for collecting EMG activity data of a testee and determining the adjustment function of auditory attention of the testee on the PPI according to the collected EMG activity data. According to the auditory attention PPI adjustment system, the testee does not need to do oral reports, and the auditory attention PPI adjustment system is expected to exert important effects on patients suffering from language disorders.

The invention relates to a method for carrying patients with language disorder. The method includes providing and utilizing foldable intelligent stretchers. The foldable intelligent stretchers comprise universal travel wheels, driving wheels, foldable lifting structures, motor drivers, foldable transverse rods and gripping portions. The universal travel wheels are arranged at the fronts of the driving wheels; the driving wheels are used for driving the foldable lifting structures to advance, retreat or stop moving; the foldable lifting structures are positioned above the driving wheels and the universal travel wheels and are used for changing the heights of the stretchers; the motor drivers are connected with the driving wheels and are used for transmitting control instructions to the driving wheels, so that driving modes of the driving wheels can be determined; the foldable transverse rods are positioned above the foldable lifting structures and are used for providing width-adjustable lying locations for the patients; the gripping portions are positioned above the foldable transverse rods and are used for providing gripping locations for the patients. The method has the advantages that the structures of the stretchers can be improved, and accordingly the stretchers can be conveniently controlled by the patients.

A computerized VoIP system which provides a computerized service for facilitating face-to-face and / or telephone meetings, in real time, between persons lacking a common language or having language barriers such as accents and dialects e.g. by utilizing or generating a networked worldwide community of Simultaneous Interpreters, using e.g. POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service), Smart Phone or any mobile phone. A platform may thereby be provided for professional simultaneous interpreters and business / private people, where interpreters from all over the world may translate any face-to-face meeting or telephone call between business people in any combination of languages, in real time.

The invention discloses an intelligent equipment control method and device and equipment. The method comprises the following steps of: when a sign language interaction instruction is obtained; carrying out triggering to start a camera of intelligent equipment, or carrying out triggering to start a camera in a terminal, wherein the terminal is internally provided with a client corresponding to theintelligent equipment; acquiring a sign language image through the camera; recognizing the acquired sign language image according to a preset sign language database so as to determine a user intention; and returning service data to the user according to the user intention. According to the method, interaction between the intelligent equipment and users is not limited to voice interaction any longer, so that users with language barriers are helped to carry out man-machine interaction with the intelligent equipment, the convenience of carrying out information interaction by the users by utilizing the intelligent equipment is enhanced, and the user experience is improved.

The invention discloses a flexible electronic skin based interactive intelligent translation system and method, and particularly relates to an interactive intelligent translation apparatus combining flexible electronic skin with a Bluetooth earphone. When a user wears the apparatus and reads an English word or sentence at will, the English word or sentence can be automatically translated into Chinese and a result is read through the Bluetooth earphone, and grammar information such as use of word groups, collocation of the word groups or the like is displayed in a display screen in real time. Therefore, great convenience is provided for English learning, and translation and use of the word can be obtained in real time through the apparatus. Moreover, the apparatus is more helpful for foreign tourists, and English can be translated into Chinese only by reading English which is not understood, so that the problem of language barriers encountered by the foreign tourists is solved. The apparatus as a novel interactive translation device is simple in structure, light in weight, high in reliability, convenient to carry, low in cost, high in practicality and favorable for industrialization.

The invention discloses a simultaneous translator, which can overcome the language barrier which perplexes the mankind for thousands of years, more conveniently promote the people-to-people communication and achieve the purpose of communicating with foreigners under the situation of not understanding English; the simultaneous translator comprises: a conversion module I, which converts voice to text; a translation module, which translates the text converted by the conversion module I to target language text; a conversion module II, which converts the target language text translated by the translation module to the voice; and a memory module which stores a large amount of language text information to be called by the translation module; the voice of source language is converted to the text of the source language by the conversion module I, the text of the source language is converted to the text of the target language by calling the language text information in the memory module by the translation module, and the text of the target voice is converted to the voice of the target language by the conversion module II, thus realizing the purpose of the simultaneous translator of the invention.

Disclosed is a computer-based aid for teaching language for children with speech disorders. The teaching aid comprises a plurality of categorized, discrete multimedia files, each of which comprises discrete synchronized audio and video content pertaining to a subject matter, and a means for aggregating two or more discrete multimedia files into a single aggregated multimedia file comprising aggregated synchronized audio and video content comprising an aggregation of the individual discrete content of the of the two or more discrete multimedia files. The aggregated content is to be learnt by a learner.